Flint Hills Resources (Wichita, KS) plans to close its 85,000-m.t./year Marysville, MI, polypropylene (PP) plant in July 2015. Production will be shifted to the company's Longview, TX, facility, which has two PP plants totaling over 300,000 m.t./year of capacity....

Shell Chemical is exercising its option to buy a site in Monaca, PA, for a potential world-scale ethylene and derivatives project, according to Horsehead Holding, owner of the site. The deal brings the project, which would include an ethane cracker and polyethylene plants, one step closer to realization. However, Shell has not made a final investment decision....